The Beatles' Solo Careers Poll - Voting and General Discussion Thread

whoa i LOVE "magneto and titanium man"

otm -- the keyboard!

"letting go" also rocks

that's long been one of my favorite solo Macca favorites -- and a total bomb on the charts.

yesssss to magneto

The Speedway medley --- I want to say I read that the original idea, when this was a double album, was that each of the first three bits would have been sprinkled around the different sides, so that when they start appearing in "Power Cut" it's this awesome payoff. Or maybe I just imagined that, but it makes a *little* more sense than just unrolling these fairly trifling songs one after the other as your closer. Ambition exceeding his grasp - I still like it, but if each section was really convincing as a song in itself, it could have been spectacular.

Fan of “Love in Song” if we are talking Venus and Mars.

I love 'Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five', particularly the way it builds up to that ending!

'Magneto', 'Letting Go' and 'Love In Song' all favourites of mine, but then I rate Venus and Mars quite highly in general. I get 'Medicine Jar' stuck in my head quite a fair bit too, and McCartney didn't write that one!

AND THE CRIMSON DYNAMO
JUST COULDN'T CUT IT NO MO'!

A few other McCartney songs that deserve shout outs:

No Words
Tomorrow
She's My Baby (I might be alone in my appreciation of this one)
Jenny Wren
Junk

HI DERE

i love "She's My Baby," "mopping her up" and all. That's a real pop-into-my-head-at-the-grocery-store tune.

No Words

ok so: i started constructing a ballot i may never complete, but this is currently my no. 1

also "junk" is so lovely

wow i’m really glad i heard “getting closer”

On paper the idea of a slide solo bores me

you have never listened to classic country i take it?

No, I never listen to any country music.

I am so loving BN's deep Wings dive, and that it keeps paying out dividends.

Lol alfred

I am so loving BN's deep Wings dive, and that it keeps paying out dividends.

― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Sunday, May 20, 2018 3:00 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup, me too!

Back to the Egg in general has become a huge favourite of mine, and it sucks that there weren't more albums with that line-up.

I've always kind of liked this Ringo song. Roger Manning and Andy Sturmer from Jellyfish are on it. He covers a Posies track on the same album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjq2uxLfpY

^^ by far his most listenable album after 1974.

Giving Wings at the Speed of Sound another listen today... definitely one of the patchier Wings albums for a couple of reasons (side two can fuck off entirely apart from 'Silly Love Songs' and 'Warm and Beautiful') but I forgot how much I love 'The Note You Never Wrote' ...

I wish there was a 12" instrumental of Paul McCartney's 'Temporary Secretary'

Non-Macca Speed of Sound jam "Wino Junko" is one of my favorite dumb Wings songs.

omigod why haven't I paid attention to Red Rose Speedway's "When the Night"???

the na na na na na na na na na naaaaght
fell on me

is "Loup" his attempt at writing Sly & Family Stone's "Thank You For Talking To Me Africa"?

4 ballots in already! Off to a good start

against my better judgment i'm making one

just curious, did the ballots make it to 100?

i'd like to list 100 songs, but i want to genuinely like every song on my list, and i'm not sure that's possible

100 song ballot really useful for when i inevitably put every non-apple jam all things must pass song on my ballot

I have 2 100 song ballots so far

That was me – I listed "Blow Away" 99 times.

correction - one of those ballots was actually only 99 tracks cuz voter voted for one song twice

nice try, voter ;)

"jealous guy" is a very good song

side two of imagine is really well balanced, feels like a tour through lennon's best modes

feel like plugging this, Yoko's best piano ballad imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8k4lN3Kd28

that's good. never heard that before.

that song is amazing

i'll be voting for it and "death of samantha" and prob several other approximately infinite universe songs

my man

I'm up to 40 songs on my ballot of stuff I unreservedly love.

next I guess I'll add some Paul songs

i absolutely adore the "Give Peace a Chance" b-side "Remember Love". this should have been on the White Album.

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, May 13, 2018 6:23 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"remember love" is awesome

Totaled the points I had for songs from particular albums and ended up with these at the top:

All Things Must Pass - 700 pts. (nine songs)
Ram - 523 pts. (eight songs)
Mind Games - 353 points (five songs)
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard - 327 points (five songs)
Memory Almost Full - 322 points (five songs)

"remember love" is awesome

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, May 21, 2018 1:00 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh i would also like to enthusiastically rep for another ono b-side, "listen, the snow is falling"

'Don't Worry Kyoko' is fucking awesome.

Think I'm gonna give Flowers in the Dirt another listen...

never a bad idea. "my brave face" and "put it there" are locks for my ballot, and maybe "we got married," "this one," "that day is done," and one of the bonus tracks. if it was an all-macca poll, two of the bonus tracks. great material in that period. we've just recently had it out over the production so need to really rehash but i, personally, wish all those songs had gotten a more "rootsy"/"natural" sound - if nothing else i think they'd be much better-known and better-liked. OTOH i like that he wasn't content to say "okay, i'm forty, it's time to settle down and just make classic 'beatle sound' albums with george martin from now on."

but i also feel like mccartney himself hasn't ever really owned how good these songs are. he seems really content in interviews and clips to talk about the stuff where there was clearly a positive critical/commercial consensus, "oh yeah, i thought, a band on the run, hmm, now THAT's interesting..." and rarely comes out and says "man i'm really proud of 'flowers,' i wrote some great songs for that, "this one" came to me like a flash of lightning at 3 AM and i hope people getting into my music check that one out" or whatever. he has anecdotes for the famous songs and he never talks about this album or 'back to the egg' or whatever. whereas someone like john or george i think had no problem hyping up whatever they thought was really good (and, often unfairly, slagging off stuff they were momentarily down on).